Help us ensure that all three voices are heard!

We believe that children’s safety and the genuine realisation of their rights can only be strengthened if we do not merely teach children about their rights, but also ensure that the adults around them possess adequate, practical knowledge of children’s rights.That is why our programmes are built around three interconnected target groups:

CHILDREN

We aim to provide them with interactive children’s rights and skills-building programmes tailored to their age group.

During the sessions, children can learn about their rights, recognise situations where their rights are being violated, where they are at risk or being abused, and find out when and from whom they can seek help.

We combine knowledge of children’s rights with the development of practical skills: self-awareness, setting boundaries, self-assertion, empathy, self-control, assertive communication, conflict resolution, asking for help and cooperation.

Our aim is for children to be able to express their opinions, set their own boundaries, ask for help and play an active part in matters that affect them.

PARENTS AND FAMILIES

We aim to provide workshops and practical programmes on children’s rights, child safety, recognising situations of risk and abuse, prevention, and ways of seeking help.

We provide parents with practical tools for bonding with their child, communicating in a way that is appropriate for their child’s age, setting and respecting boundaries, and for listening to and supporting their child in difficult or conflict-ridden situations.

PROFESSIONALS AND ORGANISATIONS

We aim to provide professional training in children’s rights and a child-centred approach to teachers, child protection and child welfare professionals, staff at guardianship authorities, and other professionals working with children.

Our key programmes and topics:

• Children’s rights in everyday life – legal awareness, self-advocacy, participation and seeking help
• Safety and child protection – preventing and recognising abuse, setting boundaries, seeking help safely
• Self-awareness and emotional skills – emotional awareness, self-regulation, assertive communication and conflict resolution
• Physical and mental wellbeing and health awareness – stress management, exercise, rest, sleep, healthy habits and physical and mental balance
• Parental education and support – children’s rights, child protection, communication and parenting issues
• Support for teachers and professionals – a child-centred, trauma-informed approach, communication, collaboration and burnout prevention
• Inclusion and equal opportunities – supporting the participation of neurodivergent children and young people, those with special educational needs (SEN), Roma children and young people, and others in vulnerable situations
• Child and youth participation – programmes and forums where young people are not only participants but also shapers of the issues that affect them.

We also wish to support schools, child protection and child welfare institutions, as well as other organisations and professionals working with children, in developing safer, more child-centred and more collaborative practices. Practices in which children’s rights, human dignity, physical and emotional safety, and well-being are not merely principles but an integral part of day-to-day operations.

Why is this necessary?

Because a child’s safety does not depend on just one person.

It is important for children to know their rights, recognise their own boundaries, and have the confidence to express their opinions and ask for help. But to do this, they also need adults who will listen to them and take them seriously.

Parents need knowledge and practical tools to understand their child’s needs, communicate effectively with them, recognise situations of risk and be able to represent their child’s interests.

Teachers and other professionals working with children, meanwhile, need a child-centred, trauma-informed and collaborative approach and methods that can be applied in everyday practice.

That is why we wish to address not just a single stakeholder, but the entire system surrounding the child.

CHILD • PARENT • TEACHER

and professionals working with children

We do not wish to teach rights alone.

Alongside education on children’s rights and child protection, our programmes also cover self-awareness, emotional awareness, self-advocacy, assertive communication, recognising personal and physical boundaries, conflict resolution, self-regulation, asking for help, as well as physical and mental wellbeing and health awareness.

We aim to provide children, parents, teachers and professionals with accessible and practical knowledge, skills and tools that can bring about real change in everyday life.

How will we use the funds raised?

Firstly, we will use the donations to establish the necessary conditions for the launch and operation of the Három Hang Association, and to launch our first programmes.

We aim to provide children and young people with sessions on children’s rights, self-awareness and skills development; educational and support workshops for parents; and training courses, workshops and awareness-raising professional programmes for teachers and other specialists. In addition, we are planning child and youth participation programmes, institutional partnerships and pilot schemes. These are all included among the Association’s activities as set out in its Articles of Association.

We use the grants to fund the professional, organisational, communication and operational infrastructure required to develop and implement the programmes.

Our long-term aim is to establish a nationwide programme system that is accessible to children and young people, parents, teachers and other professionals alike. In accordance with our articles of association, we aim to make our programmes available in person and online throughout Hungary.

This current funding is needed to get us started – but its impact could extend far beyond that.

Hungary ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1991.

Raising awareness of the Convention and promoting the practical realisation of the rights it enshrines is one of the fundamental aims of the Három Hang Association.

We want to help ensure that these rights are not merely words on a page, but become rights that children can understand, recognise and exercise in their everyday lives.

Every donation brings us closer to ensuring that these programmes reach as many children, parents, teachers and professionals as possible.

If we receive more funding than is required to get the project off the ground, the remaining funds will be used to support the Association’s operations and to implement its programmes promoting children’s rights, child protection, education, skills development and well-being.

Thank you for supporting the launch of Három Hang – and thank you also for helping to spread the word about our fundraising campaign so that our initiative reaches as many people as possible.